Tonight on CBS NCIS: Sydney airs with an all-new Tuesday, March 24, 2026, season 3 episode 12 called, “”Lone Wolf: Part Onex” and we have your weekly NCIS: Sydney recap below.
In tonight’s NCIS season 3 episode 12, “”Lone Wolf: Part One” as per the CBS synopsis, “The team investigates a targeted explosion that wiped out a bomb squad with ties close to home.”
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In tonight’s NCIS: Sydney episode, there was an IED found in an abandoned house. The state cops were called in. The bomb squad were called as well. The bomb was located in the living room and it needed to be defused before it took a block out with it. Now, the bomb squad was able to cut off the bomb.
They didn’t need that the first bomb was merely a red herring. There was a second device to amplify the first one. The second device came after a high-pitched noise. The bomb dogs tried to warn them and it came too late to stop what happened.
After they cleared the first bomb, they sent people in. There was a group of five people inside when it went off. It didn’t take out the whole building. It was instead full of shrapnel. It was meant to kill the same sent to clear the scene. The same people that Trigger worked with for years before he got benched.
JD got the alert after the bomb went off. He informed Trigger what happened. Trigger wanted to know how bad and sadly it was his whole team that died. This included his number two who just had a second child.
Trigger went to a dark place once he heard. JD never found out why he got benched. Not until he saw Trigger at the scene and he became concerned for him.
JD finally asked his bud why Trigger got benched from his own team. Trigger saw a psychiatrist. It was determined he had a death wish. He found himself transferred to NCIS. He was riding a desk when usually he was out in the field. The man that transferred him was a friend who made sure that JD took him in. And yet JD felt Rory wasn’t telling him everything.
It was a feeling he would go on to have as the case developed. The bomber had left a countdown. NCIS offered to help with the case. Trigger was the closest expert bomb tech left.
Trigger determined this bomber was the same perp in a bombing from two years ago. Trigger remembered it because his fiancé Charlotte died in that explosion. He still has the case file from back then because he never stopped looking for the bomber. The one person that didn’t want to revisit the past was Rory.
Blue was able to track down a car used at the first bombing to a hosing complex. Only the real bomber wasn’t there. He instead sent a package with a stuffed toy inside and a note said “getting closer”. The apartment was significant because Rory said deja vu when he saw it again. Rory refused to say why it was a memory. Trigger didn’t have that problem. He said he killed a man in that apartment more than a decade ago. His name had been Jason Wright. He robbed a bank and killed a cop.
Trigger and Rory had tracked him back to his apartment. He reached for a gun when he saw them. It was Trigger who shot and killed him. The only other person besides them that day had been Jason’s son, Timonthy Wright.
Blue was looking into him while Trigger had introduced Evie to one of the few people to survive the bombing two years ago. His name is Kyle. Kyle was left in a wheelchair by what happened. Trigger checked on him every now and then. Trigger didn’t want to remember how Charlotte died so he left Evie alone with Kyle.
Big mistake!
Blue found the last photo of Timonthy Wright with his dad. She sent it to the team. Trigger instantly recognized him as Kyle and by time they moved out to go rescue Evie – both she and Wright were gone.
Wright has been doing all of this to hurt Trigger. He targeted Charlotte first. He was indifferent to everyone that died and he liked to watch. It’s why he was so close to the first explosion that he was truly injured. Trigger saw the extent of his wounds at the time. Wright just didn’t mention how far his rehabilitation has come. He was back on his feet now.
He abducted Trigger. He wanted to watch Trigger in pain because he saw that Evie was more than a colleague. She was a friend. She was someone that Trigger grew closer to lately and Wright hated it.
He wanted to destroy any chance of Trigger being happy. Trigger’s memory of what happened with Jason wasn’t as clear as he thought. It took Wright luring Trigger away from his team to get him to remember what really happened. He had been a young officer when he killed Jason. He thought he reached for a gun. They even found a gun. And yet Wright said it was the wrong gun.
Wright’s mother died when he was eight. He only had his father. His father was no saint. He knew that and still he said his father was unarmed when he was killed. The gun they later claimed to have found wasn’t Jason’s gun.
He carried around a pistol. Wright remembered seeing it. He was claiming the gun at the scene was planted and that his life has been destroyed ever since. The bombing from the start of the episode happened at his first foster house. Then he led them to the apartment where he lived with his dad.
He lured Trigger to the group home where he came to stay after foster homes didn’t work out. He said it was a living hell there and one can only imagine what happened to the little boy in all those places he wanted to destroy. He blamed Trigger for all of it. He put a bomb around Evie’s neck. Its what the countdown was for all along.
The bomb was initially created for Trigger, but hurting Evie made sense in Wright’s twisted mind. Trigger was asked what really and he kept repeating that Jason reached for a gun. Almost like it had been spoon fed to him rather than be an actual memory.
Wright didn’t like the lies. He took off minutes on the countdown. He then shot Trigger and he left him to deactivate the bomb with just four minutes left.
THE END!
